Legendary Steelers coach Chuck Noll will be featured on one of three covers for this week's Sports Illustrated.

The cover features Noll hoisted on the shoulders of Franco Harris and Joe Greene after the Steelers beat the Minnesota Vikings 16-6 in Super Bowl IX -- the first of the franchise's four championships under Noll. He remains the only coach to ever win four Lombardi Trophies.

"Chuck was a proud man. Before he got to Pittsburgh his nickname was The Pope. Then Myron Cope, the Steelers’ radio man, nicknamed him The Emperor. The reason: He was never wrong. He always had the answer, and the right answer, to whatever needed to be done," Bleier wrote.

Under his guidance, the Steelers won four Super Bowls over six seasons (1974, 1975, 1978 and 1979), an unprecedented run that made Pittsburgh one of the NFL's marquee franchises, one that breathed life into a struggling, blue-collar city.

Noll retired in 1991 with a 209-156-1 record in 23 seasons, after inheriting a team that had never won a postseason game. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1993.